Re: latex linked to pdfetex ?

* Robin Fairbairns on Tue, Dec 14, 2004:
>> most of them looks ok, but latex is linked to pdfetex. Is this really
>> correct?
>
> indeed, as advertised.  the latex project suggested doing away with
> "tex", making everything e-tex based, and the texlive people realised
> we can do with nothing but pdfetex.

Hmm, for me the only drawback is that I haven't got it to work
with LilyPond (music notation); or, to be more precise, I got
LilyPond to work by linking latex to tex in texmf.cnf (otherwise
I just use pdflatex) but not the so called lilypond-book
interface that integrates notation into LaTeX-documents.

This might of course mostly be due to my lack of compiling skills
and can be worked around by keeping a tetex-2.0.2 around. And I
guess it won't be a long term issue anyway because LilyPond is
changing rapidly.

Nevertheless I'd be quite interested if someone got both
teTeX-unstable and LilyPond to work; as this is probably not the
right place for details I'd be glad to receive news concerning
this via PM.

c
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